Is there a way to get syntax highlighting in Eclipse inside JSF tags?

Question

Well, title says it all, I want syntax highlighting inside <h:outputScript> tags, for example:

  <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
  <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

  <ui:composition xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
      xmlns:ui="http://java.sun.com/jsf/facelets"
      xmlns:h="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html"
      xmlns:f="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core"
      xmlns:c="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core"
      xmlns:t="http://myfaces.apache.org/tomahawk">

      <h:panelGroup id="foo">
          blah
      </h:panelGroup>

      <h:outputScript>

        //please highlighting here
        var iousGoogleSearchesLaterIfearThereIsNoSuch = function(but, I, do, want, so) {
           if(youKnow(something)) {
             please(but);
           }
           for (I, do, so, want ;'';);
           return "the favor" && share;
        };

      </h:outputScript>

  </ui:composition>

Any tips/tools or ideas? Thanks

It's more efficient and better practice to put JS code in a JS file. — BalusC, Feb 10 '16 at 18:33
@BalusC definitely agreed, and that's what I do like 99% of the cases, but sometimes not an option — user777, Feb 10 '16 at 18:38
If it's solely the EL evaluation, this may be helpful: http://stackoverflow.com/q/34156641 As to the concrete problem, what if you just use ` — BalusC, Feb 10 '16 at 18:45

score 3 · Accepted Answer · edited Jun 20 '20 at 09:12

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Given that you don't really take advantage of <h:outputScript> component (especially relocation by target="head|body" attribute and being able to grab and manipulate it via the component tree), simply use plain HTML <script> instead.

<script type="text/javascript">
    ...
</script>

It would be better if you switch to HTML5 doctype, then you don't need to specify type attribute too.

<!DOCTYPE html>
...
<script>
    ...
</script>

Nonetheless, putting JS code in its own JS file is more efficient (browser has opportunity to cache it, so overall performance is better) and is considered best practice as to separation of concerns.

Is there a way to get syntax highlighting in Eclipse inside JSF tags?

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